who “discovered” xkcd?

Riding the subway with a friend of mine, he asked what the first xkcd post on reddit was. We at reddit like to think our community helped boost those splendid stick figures into geek fame. But I had no idea who submitted the first xkcd comic to reddit. I know, it’s discovery in the same way Columbus “discovered” America — just work with us, please.

When these sorts of questions come up, we can always rely on Chris “Statman” Slowe to divine the answer from our logs. So I emailed him; here’s what he found: